Drawings as "endgame"

Pralaya series no.16, 2002
- graphite on paper, 25 cm X 36 cm

"Pralaya Series"

The discourse on post-modernism and the prevalent pluralism and pastiche in art, sometimes makes me think of the Hindu concept of cosmic time. Whereby it is divided into 3 different eras or yugas: krta, the perfect age; kali, the age of conflict and ruin; and pralaya, the age of dissolution. Its said we are in the age of conflict and ruin, kali and it prefigures the age of dissolution, pralaya. Where everything is increasingly mixed up and rules are turned upside down. Submerged in and re-emerging from pralaya, the same existence is ever composing, decomposing and recomposing itself, every phase echoes and re-echoes.

The series of drawings were done with random scratches, scrawls and whorls, which find their own distinct form in the midst of chaos. Each mark is an echo of the previous one; each stroke makes a decomposition of the preceding composition. Style is generally equated with eccentricity, individuality and originality. These drawings are intended to move in the opposite direction, toward generality, anonymity.